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Lazy Hill

from These Quiet Places by Colum Sands

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Lazy Hill
Words and Music : Colum Sands © Elm Grove Music

As I went over the Lazy Hill,
The sun was rising up lifting the morning chill,
The days were longer then, I thought I had time to kill,
Until I met you there, on top of the Lazy Hill.

The birds were singing a song of hawthorn hedges in June
Weaving the blossom and leaf, into the thread of a tune
A thought came to my mind, up there in heaven’s room
If ever you’d go away, you couldn’t come back too soon.

(Chorus)

If ever you’d go away you couldn’t come back too soon
To rustle the autumn leaves or dance in the meadows of June
Wherever your shuttles may fly, I wish a long life to your loom
I wish you the golden thread that’s spun from the sun and the moon

On Lazy Hill you said, there’s work to be done
Watching the stars come out, to dream of the rising sun
If you would win my heart, then walk don’t always run
There’s more than meets the eye, where love is lost and won.

You showed me the silver stream running all down to the sea
You said, “If your feet get wet, you needn’t come running to me!”
We stopped at the rusty gate we heard the old farmer say,
“Too late to fatten your hens, on the morning of market day.”

The day that you went away, the hawthorn berries were red,
I wonder if what you said will ever go out of my head,
“When dew is on the grass, take time to drink your fill,
There’s only one chance to dance on top of the Lazy Hill.”

credits

from These Quiet Places, released February 16, 2023
Colum Sands : vocals, guitar, double bass with Brian Finnegan : whistle,
Maggie MacInnes : clarsach, Anne Sands : bodhran, Sinead Stone & Ben Sands : backing vocals, Karen Tweed : accordion

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Colum Sands Newry, UK

Colum Sands is a universal storyteller who draws on a long Irish tradition of poetic musicality to weave songs for the world.
Drawing on countless performances, Sands uses humour and shrewd observation to celebrate what unites rather than what separates. His latest album “Song Bridge” includes many of the songs written for his extensive environmental campaigning over the past two years. ... more

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